Practices · 02
Dwelling
tiny houses, interiors, objects,
and the land that holds them
A house is a machine you live inside for decades. Most are designed around a floor plan and a resale value; almost none are designed around a single ordinary day in the life of the person who will actually be in them.
What we are studying
How much space a person genuinely needs, as opposed to how much they are sold. The answer is usually far less, and the difference is almost always spent on rooms nobody sits in.
What separates a house from a home: light through the day, air that moves, storage that is where you put things down, thresholds that let you arrive properly.
What makes a village feel alive rather than merely picturesque — the distance to a neighbour, where the water is, where people are forced to pass each other, what the land is doing.
What we are making
A small house designed backwards from one whole day: waking, cooking, working, receiving someone, being ill, being old in it.
Household objects built to last decades and to be repaired — the pot, the shelf, the lamp, the chair — in local material, by hands we can name.
Interiors in which every surface is either useful or beautiful, and where possible both. Landscape and village layouts designed so that the walk to a neighbour is short and worth taking.
Where it is going
Buildable plans, an object catalogue, and a landscape study for a village that could actually be built.
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